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Lexicon :: Strong's H272 - 'ăḥuzzâ

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אֲחֻזָּה
Transliteration
'ăḥuzzâ
Pronunciation
akh-ooz-zaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From passive participle from אָחַז (H270)
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TWOT Reference: 64a

Strong’s Definitions

אֲחֻזָּה ʼăchuzzâh, akh-ooz-zaw'; feminine passive participle from H270; something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land):—possession.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 66x

The KJV translates Strong's H272 in the following manner: possession(s) (66x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 66x
The KJV translates Strong's H272 in the following manner: possession(s) (66x).

  1. possession, property

    1. land

    2. possession by inheritance

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲחֻזָּה ʼăchuzzâh, akh-ooz-zaw'; feminine passive participle from H270; something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land):—possession.
STRONGS H272: Abbreviations
† אֲחֻזָּה 66 noun feminine possession — א׳ Genesis 47:11 + 11 times; construct אֲחֻזַּת Genesis 17:8 + 21 times; suffix אֲחֻזָּֽֽֽתְךָ Psalm 2:8; — possession, P & late; of landed property Genesis 47:11; Leviticus 14:34; Leviticus 25:10, 13, 25, 27, 28, 33 (houses); Leviticus 25:41; Leviticus 25:45; Leviticus 21:46; Numbers 27:4; Numbers 32:5, 22, 29; Numbers 35:8; Deuteronomy 32:49; Joshua 21:12, 39; Ezekiel 44:28; Ezekiel 45:5, 6, 7 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 45:8; Ezekiel 46:18 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 48:20, 21, 22 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 7:28; 1 Chronicles 9:2; 2 Chronicles 11:14; 31:1; Nehemiah 11:3; with אֶרֶץ, אֲחֻזָּה א׳ = land possessed, one's own land Genesis 36:43; Leviticus 14:34; Leviticus 25:24; Numbers 35:28; Joshua 22:4, 9, 19 (twice in verse), compare אֲחֻזַּת הָאָרֶץ Leviticus 27:24; with שָׂדֶה, אֲחֻזָּה שׂ׳ Leviticus 27:16, 22, 28, compare Leviticus 27:21; with עִיר, אֲתֻּזָּה ע׳ Leviticus 25:32, 33; אֲחֻזַּת נַחֲלָה = possession by right of inheritance Numbers 27:7; Numbers 32:32, & נַחֲלַת א׳ Numbers 35:2 compare בְּנַחֲלָה א׳ Ezekiel 46:16 (but Co as Numbers 27:7 so B); אֲחֻזַּת קֶבֶר Genesis 23:4, 9, 20; Genesis 49:30; Genesis 50:13; עוֺלם א׳ Genesis 17:8; Genesis 48:4; Leviticus 25:34; in promise to Davidic king וַאֲחֻזָּֽֽֽתְךָ אַסְפֵיאָֿרֶץ Psalm 2:8 (|| נַחֲלָה); figurative of י׳ as portion of Levitical priests Ezekiel 44:28 (|| נַחֲלָה).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:8; 17:8; 23:4; 23:9; 23:20; 36:43; 47:11; 47:11; 48:4; 49:30; 50:13

Leviticus

14:34; 14:34; 25:10; 25:13; 25:24; 25:25; 25:27; 25:28; 25:32; 25:33; 25:33; 25:34; 25:41; 25:45; 27:16; 27:21; 27:22; 27:24; 27:28

Numbers

27:4; 27:7; 27:7; 32:5; 32:22; 32:29; 32:32; 35:2; 35:8; 35:28

Deuteronomy

32:49

Joshua

21:12; 21:39; 22:4; 22:9; 22:19

1 Chronicles

7:28; 9:2

2 Chronicles

11:14; 31:1

Nehemiah

11:3

Psalms

2:8; 2:8

Ezekiel

44:28; 44:28; 45:5; 45:6; 45:7; 45:8; 46:16; 46:18; 48:20; 48:21; 48:22

H272

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H272 matches the Hebrew אֲחֻזָּה ('ăḥuzzâ),
which occurs 66 times in 58 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 17:8–Eze 45:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which is his, which is at the end of his field; for the full money let him give it to me amongst you for a possession of a sepulchre.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:20 - And the field and the cave that was in it were assured to Abraham for a possession of a sepulchre by the sons of Heth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:43 - chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - and he said to me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - and his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah which Abraham had bought along with the field, for a possession of a sepulchre, of Ephron the Hittite, opposite to Mamre.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - When ye come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a leprous plague in a house of the land of your possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:10 - And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a year of jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:13 - In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - If thy brother grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:46 - And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - And if a man hallow to Jehovah part of a field of his possession, thy valuation shall be according to what may be sown in it: the homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - and the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - And if he hallow to Jehovah a field that he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought -- to him to whom the land belonged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man hath devoted to Jehovah of all that he hath, of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should the name of our father be taken away from his family, because he has no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - and they said, If we have found favour in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession: bring us not over the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - and the land is subdued before Jehovah, and afterwards ye return, ye shall be guiltless toward Jehovah and toward Israel, and this land shall be your possession before Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben pass with you over the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will pass over armed before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance on this side the Jordan shall be ours.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Command the children of Israel, that of the inheritance of their possession they give unto the Levites cities to dwell in; and a suburb for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have much ye shall take much, and from them that have little ye shall take little; each one according to his inheritance which he will inherit shall give of his cities to the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - for the manslayer should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high-priest; but after the death of the high-priest he may return into the land of his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - Go up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities and their suburbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - And now Jehovah your God hath given rest to your brethren, as he said unto them; and now return, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, into the land of their possession, of which they had become possessed, according to the word of Jehovah through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession is unclean, come over into the land of the possession of Jehovah, where Jehovah's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession amongst us; but rebel not against Jehovah, and rebel not against us, in building for yourselves an altar besides the altar of Jehovah our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - And their possession and dwelling-places were Bethel and its dependent villages, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer and its dependent villages, and Shechem and its dependent villages as far as to Gazah and its dependent villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - And the inhabitants that were first in their possessions in their cities were the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - for the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from exercising the priesthood to Jehovah;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - And these are the chiefs of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem; but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the ends of the earth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - And it shall be unto them for an inheritance; I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - And a space of five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall the Levites, who do the service of the house, have for themselves, for a possession, for their habitations.

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